Mythender Fates
God of Judgment
who will pass judgment and enforce order throughout the worlds
The Dream of Judgment
Your Dream is filled with the wailing of troubled souls. Their prayers are filled with anguish. They offer sacrifice for an audience, seeking justice or mercy. Does your word bring them order? Peace? Regret?
Concept: Judge
Personal Blight: People feel shame for even the smallest transgression they’ve committed ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... I am, but without eyes
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... a man without eyes, with a robe made of pages with law, and hands glowing with righteousness
Godly Form: I appear as ... a bright cloud of a man towering over all, with words of law swirling around me like ghosts
Concept: Executioneer
Personal Blight: Animals growl, hiss, or otherwise show anger at everything around them ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... one whose face is forever in shadow, my eyes always unseen ... in my presence.
Supernatural Form: I appear I appear as ... one whose face is forever in shadow, and my weapons and clothes are stained with old blood that smells of vindication
Godly Form: I appear as ... a living shadow, turned red, with two large axe blades on my back as wings
Judgment’s Powers over Mortals and the Land
Fate’s Powers: My Fate allows me to ... force mortals to confess and volunteer for justice, turn the land into a prison of the mind and soul
God of Death
who will rule viciously over the souls of the departed
The Dream of Death
Your Dream is littered with corpses. Dark beasts bring them in from all the land. The spirits of the newly dead are ripped from their bodies and brought before you. Are you judging them? Punishing them? Consuming them?
Concept: Mercy
Personal Blight: People long for the sweet release of death ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... a figure shrouded in immaculate white light
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... a figure shrouded in immaculate white light, surrounded by a whispering breeze of grateful, departed souls
Godly Form: I appear as ... a smiling, bleached skeleton with a white light at the center of my rib cage, drifting on a sea of the grateful dead
Concept: Decay
Personal Blight: Plants and the sickly wither ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... a mortal, but with skin beginning to rot and fester, its foul stench choking others ... in my presence.
Supernatural Form: I appear I appear as ... as ... one whose skin hangs loose on my bones, held in place only by feasting maggots and worms
Godly Form: I appear as I appear ... a vaguely as ... humanoid mass of insects and vermin, choking the air with the scent of dead flesh and waste
Death’s Powers over Mortals and the Land
Fate’s Powers: My Fate allows me to ... slaughter mortals with my will, raise the dead, summon shades of the deceased
God of War
who will forever drench mankind in the blood of their foes and fellows
The Dream of War
Your Dream is of endless battle—blood-mist and the clash of steel. Mortals feed your thirsty battlefields with their lives, all for the chance of glory and honor in your name. What rewards do you promise the victors? What awaits the unworthy?
Concept: Warlord
Personal Blight: The ever-present spirits of the departed make themselves seen and heard ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... a warrior with dark, abyssal armor
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... a warrior with dark, abyssal armor, blood running from it like a spring
Godly Form: I appear as ... a titan, giant and bloody, with spikes on my armor that each hold a dead, wailing foe
Concept: Eternal Warrior
Personal Blight: The smallest quarrels break out into violence, be it between mortal or animal ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... a warrior with a halo of steel and blood over my head
Supernatural Form: I appear I appear as ... a warrior with a halo of steel and blood. Etched on my skin are the names of each person I’ve killed in battle
Godly Form: I appear as ... living armor, with those names etched on becoming mouths that whisper of doom of those who face me
War’s Powers over Mortals and the Land
Fate’s Powers: My Fate allows me to ... enrage mortals and make them feel courage, forge warriors from the earth and sky, raise armies of the dead
God of Life
who will shape the cycle of creation with a firm hand
The Dream of Life
Your Dream is a tapestry of sunlight and wheat, of afterbirth and screams. You are the spark within every seed, the first heartbeat of every infant—and the last, should you will it. What lives are worth your blessing? What lives are not?
Concept: Lifegiver
Personal Blight: People seek my comfort and aid, even in the presence of those closest to them ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... a beautiful being whose features shift to whatever is most welcoming to the beholder
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... a beautiful being with shifting features, carrying a newborn child that never seems to come to harm
Godly Form: I appear as ... points of light where my eyes should be, wearing only the grime of afterbirth, surrounded by a floating ring of newly born children
Concept: the Wild
Personal Blight: Plants spontaneously bloom and become overgrowth in my presence and animals mate ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... a simple traveler, my garb always matching the coloring and patterning of local wildlife ... in my presence.
Supernatural Form: I appear I appear as ... a bark-skinned monstrosity, my eyes glow green, and leaves of plants stick out from the folds of my clothes
Godly Form: I appear as ... a demon of the wild, skin made of bark and vegetation and earth, growing out of surrounding plant life as though connected to it
Life’s Powers over Mortals and the Land
Fate’s Powers: My Fate allows me to ... heal mortals, bring the dead back to life, twist forms and create Mythic beasts, cause the wilderness to grow
God of Love
who will force all hearts to wear chains of devotion and need
The Dream of Love
Your Dream is a lavish court filled with admirers. They surround you, singing and dancing and copulating and murdering at your whim. Do you taste the pain of heartache? Can a mortal be worthy of your love? Can you?
Concept: Siren
Personal Blight: The sound of my voice causes mortals to forget work, play, and all other desires ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... one unimaginably light, as though my bones were hollow
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... one unimaginably light, with wings growing behind my arms, making me capable of flight
Godly Form: I appear as ... a creature between human and bird, legs ending in talons that can rend steel, arms spreading into broad, majestic wings
Concept: Virgin
Personal Blight: Mortals are compelled to protect me from even the slightest harm ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... one so impossibly pale, always on the cusp of the bloom into maturity
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... one so impossibly pale, with no irises in my eyes, as though they were made of smooth stone
Godly Form: I appear as ... a living statue of gleaming white porcelain, staring at the world through alabaster eyes, impenetrable and impregnable
Love’s Powers over Mortals and the Land
Fate’s Powers: My Fate allows me to ... force mortals to love those of my choosing, cause anything that moves to feel heartbreak and longing
God of Chaos
who will doom mortalkind to the beautiful whims of entropy and chance
The Dream of Chaos
Your Dream is a cacophony of savagery and lamentation. Mortals build and unite to fruitless ends, their hopes and dreams ending in ashes and dust. Is it your attention that destroys them, or your neglect?
Concept: Mad Prophet
Personal Blight: Mortals act on random impulse in my presence— sometimes ludicrous, sometimes destructive ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... one who does not blink, but I do not seem to notice my parched, reddened eyes
Supernatural Form: I appear as ... one who does not blink, and I grow limbs and other parts spontaneously as I should need
Godly Form: I appear as ... a horror from the worst of nightmares, a writhing mass of limbs, organs, tentacles, orifices, everything imaginable together
Concept: The Contemptuous
Personal Blight: The endeavors of mortals or animals spontaneously fail ... in my presence.
Paragon Form: I appear as ... my mortal form, though the rumble of a storm echoes my movements
**Supernatural Form **: I appear as ... that rumble, and lightning caresses my skin, striking outward at random or at my behest
Godly Form: I appear as ... a massive, opaque thundercloud of black and red, rumbling with scarlet lightning, draining all around with heat and fatigue
Chaos’s Powers over Mortals and the Land
Fate’s Powers: My Fate allows me to ... force mortals to cause disorder and chaos, break the will of anyone with certain belief, make nature unpredictable
Making New Fates
Fates are vastly different from Hearts and Pasts, because they’re more esoteric. Because of that, they aren’t filled with questions to answer, but options to choose from and alter to taste. The easy way to make a new Fate is to change the Personal Blights and Forms on one of the Fate’s options. Many people do this—and that’s great!
If, on the other hand, you’re making a new Fate from scratch, you’ll need to know if you’re making a broad Fate or a narrow one. The six in this book are broad; you can tell this because there are two different takes for each one, which are only unified by the overall theme (reflected in the Heart’s Dream and its nebulous questions) and the Fate’s Power Over Mortals. A Fate with only one strong interpretation that you can see is a narrow Fate, though over time it may become broader.
Key to making a Fate is making sure it’s inhuman and at best only slightly sympathetic. The God of Blacksmiths, for instance, isn’t just some dude who likes to work all day over hot metal, but a deity that abhors freeloaders and those who do not contribute to civilization—those people erode his power. The God of Hedonism isn’t just someone who likes to party, but one who needs mortals to engage in gluttony and debauchery, as that is his true food and drink.
When making a Fate, understand that the Fate’s Power Over Mortals exists for three reasons: to tell you what your Mythender can do that others can’t, to show you how your Mythender is pretty much already that god right now and should just give into Fate, and to give you and the Mythmaster ideas for Terrorizing Mortals for Power. Similarly, the Personal Blight exists as a tool for the Mythmaster to remind the Mythender at every turn that she’s not entirely mortal—especially when she’s trying to Seek Sympathy and Healing.
The only advice I can give on making specific Personal Blights, Forms, and Power have already been said in Damning Your Mythender. Look at the Fates in this book as examples for tone. Keep the Forms about appearance, not about how mortals feel—that’s key to making a Personal Blight function in the story, as well as making Terrorizing Mortals the Mythender’s choice rather than an accident based on the current Form.